Valdosta State University

Welcome to Valdosta State, a comprehensive university - meaning we offer associate, bachelor, graduate, and doctoral degrees - that serves the heart of South Georgia in one of its largest cities. We love palm trees, live oaks, fountains, and sunny days on the Front Lawn. Our students love hands on experience, individual faculty interaction, and unique experiences like undergraduate research in the Florida Keys. Settled just fifteen minutes above the Florida state line, VSU offers in-state tuition to residents of Florida, as well as South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Valdosta State offers the best of both worlds — the extensive academic, cultural, and social opportunities of a major university and the small classes and close personal attention found at smaller institutions.

At VSU, undergraduate and graduate students alike actively engage in scholarly activities with faculty members, providing opportunities for students to conduct research directly related to their selected discipline.

For over 100 years, we’ve had a rich tradition of helping our students transform their skills and life goals into one successful future. Here, students will have access to extensive academics and social opportunities, state-of-the-art facilities, and expert professors, all of which lead students toward graduation and prepare them for their next chapter in life. Our Admissions Office is dedicated to answering the questions you have about VSU and helping you navigate through the process of becoming a Blazer.

Once you visit Valdosta State, we know your college search will be over. So, come see the beautiful campus that rests beneath the tall palms and South Georgia sunshine. Come see where you’ll have the freedom to design your life’s path. Come see VSYOU.

aldosta State University is committed to providing a quality graduate learning environment that will enable you to pursue your advanced studies guided by graduate faculty with a passion for teaching, scholarship, and service.

We have over 60 graduate programs to choose from and offer online as well as face-to-face options for graduate education. Valdosta State University is committed to establishing itself as a regional leader in the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge through the scholarly activities of our faculty, staff, and students. Our research, creative, and scholarly endeavors ("research") encompasses the full range of discovery, integration, application, and teaching scholarship.

As stated in our mission statement, we are dedicated to helping students and parents obtain the financial aid necessary to pay for a college education here at Valdosta State University. Aid takes many forms… grants, Federal Work-Study, loans, and scholarships are available through our office to help pay for educational expenses.

At Valdosta State, students take learning beyond the classroom. Here, you can participate in research or practice with faculty members as early as your first year. You'll utilize technology from the hospital room to the news room and everywhere in between to gain professional-level knowledge in your field. You can study in over 100 locations around the world, then apply your experience at home. Whatever experience you're looking for, you can find it here.

As a VSU student, the Center for eLearning is here to support you with your online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced coursework – from the time you are a prospective student and throughout your enrollment. For our faculty, we strive to be a partner to help you achieve the goals and objectives you identify for your students through the creative application of technology, instructional design consultations, and professional development opportunities focusing on online instruction and technology application in the classroom.

Here, however, beauty is a lot more than skin-deep. For more than 100 years we have focused on creating individual success stories. This is a place where professors are mentors, competition is cheered, collaboration counts, experience is hands-on and connections are lifelong. For us, student success is the most beautiful thing about our campus. You can create your own success story at Valdosta State University.

VSU is a home away from home, where lifelong connections are made, and you will never feel invisible. Here you will write it, sing it, broadcast it, run with it, cheer for it, celebrate it, teach it, nurture and own it. There are over 100 majors to explore, championship athletics, highly regarded graduate programs and we are just far enough away from home.

At VSU we are hands on from day one. Research, internships, study abroad, small class sizes, winning plays, faculty access, lending a hand, and even playing in the sand come naturally. VSU makes the university experience relevant and real for students—opening the door to opportunities in the workplace and in life.

At VSU you will elevate your own expectations, ignite your passion for learning, transform yourself and gain a bigger view of the world. With access to our world-class faculty and one of the safest campuses in Georgia, you will find the sky is the limit for your success.